Frank Turner - Peggy Sang The Blues

Frank Turner has become a familiar face at festivals and gigs around the UK.  He is a hardworking folk/punk artist who has a steadily increasing following of passionate fans who hang on to his every word.  Over the last year or so, America and Canada have also discovered him and his latest album, England Keep My Bones, is no disappointment.

A British artist, he does feel quintessentially English.  Songs such as Wessex Boy and English Curse, not to mention the album title itself hint as much (coming as it does from Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John).  But Turner has revealed that one of the major themes of the album is English identity, which is useful because most of us either don't know what it is any more or are a little ashamed of it (unfairly).  "I quite self-consciously wanted to make music that sounds English."  Turner is quoted as saying.  I think he's succeeded.

The first single, Peggy Sang The Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ns6ouwO1g
was released on 25th April 2011.

http://www.frank-turner.com/